Tyne Cot

Our next stop in Belgium was the sobering cemetery known as Tyne Cot, just outside Passchendaele. Tyne Cot is a British cemetery with over 12,000 graves; it is probably the best known and largest WWI cemetery in Flanders.

Entrance to Tyne Cot; this area saw over 44 million shells were fried on this stretch of Western Front in WWI and II. 35,000 British Commonwealth soldiers killed after August 1917 are commemorated at the wall at the back of the cemetery. Many of the graves are unmarked.



Memorial to Tyne Cot. The large cross sits atop a German pill-box bunker for which the site was named.





Graves at Tyne Cot cemetery.





Graves at Tyne Cot cemetery.



One of thousands of unmarked graves at Tyne Cot.